Cron Automation for the Four Research Tools: One Monitoring Stack for Funding, Withdrawals, Delegations, and Sanity

Each tool answers one question; together they form a monitoring stack that runs your risk review while you sleep. This guide wires the four — funding-forecaster, withdrawal-floor, eip7702-check, and sanity-checker — into one cron setup with logs you’ll actually read.

Why automate the tools instead of running them by hand?

Because manual checks decay exactly when risk rises: the week you’re busy is the week funding saturates, a delegation appears, or your withdrawable number shifts. Cron removes the decay — the stack below covers the four failure modes traders actually get hit by: carry cost creep, capital mis-planning, delegation ambush, and execution donation.

The reference crontab

# funding-forecaster — daily 08:00, per held perps position
0 8 * * * cd ~/tools/funding-forecaster && python3 funding_forecaster.py \
  --market YOUR_MARKET --side long --leverage 5 --hours 24 \
  --margin 500 >> ~/logs/funding.log 2>&1

# withdrawal-floor — Mondays 09:00
0 9 * * 1 cd ~/tools/withdrawal-floor && python3 withdrawal_floor.py \
  --address 0xYourWallet >> ~/logs/floor.log 2>&1

# eip7702-check — every 6 hours on the cold wallet
0 */6 * * * python3 ~/tools/eip7702-check/eip7702_check.py \
  --address 0xYourColdWallet >> ~/logs/delegation.log 2>&1 \
  || echo "$(date) delegation on cold wallet" >> ~/logs/alerts.log

# eip7702-check — every 6 hours on the trading wallet
30 */6 * * * python3 ~/tools/eip7702-check/eip7702_check.py \
  --address 0xYourHotWallet >> ~/logs/delegation.log 2>&1 \
  || echo "$(date) delegation on hot wallet" >> ~/logs/alerts.log

Sanity-checker lives in the bot’s pre-trade path (exit-code gating — see the tool guide) rather than cron: it’s a per-decision gate, not a schedule.

The log discipline (three files, one habit)

funding.log — daily projections become a trend record: growing drag on a held position is the early warning the snapshot can’t give (see the two reads). floor.log — weekly buckets show locked capital decaying as markets resolve; a locked bucket that doesn’t decay is dead capital worth an exit decision (see exit discipline). delegation.log + alerts.log — the alert file is the only one you read reactively; empty means clean, a line means act now (the revoke procedure).

The alerting rules worth following

Alert on condition, not on run. Every cron run appending to a log is noise; append to alerts.log only on failure conditions (exit code 1 from the 7702 check; drag above a threshold you set in a wrapper around the forecaster). One alert channel you read — email, TG bot, whatever — fed by alerts.log. Silence is data too: if the delegation check hasn’t run (server down), that’s a monitoring gap, not safety — a heartbeat pattern (see the dead-man’s switch design) applies to monitoring itself.

Scaling the stack

Add markets to the forecaster by adding cron lines (or a wrapper looping your held positions — the API guide lists your open positions endpoint). Add wallets to the 7702 check the same way. The floor tool takes any address — run it on family accounts you help manage (with their consent — the tool reads only public data). Keep the whole stack read-only: none of these tools need keys, so a compromised cron host leaks nothing but your addresses (already public) — the session-key separation principle applied to monitoring.

FAQ

Do the four tools work together on one machine? Yes — all are standard-library Python, read-only, no keys. The reference crontab above runs all three scheduled ones; sanity-checker gates bot trades directly.

What should I alert on? Delegations found (exit 1 from eip7702-check), funding drag above your threshold, and monitoring silence (heartbeat). Everything else is a log to review, not a page: see the alerting rules above.

How often should the delegation check run? Every 6 hours is a solid default for meaningful wallets; every hour for hot wallets during high-activity weeks. The threat cadence section explains why: delegations activate at deposit time, and sweepers move in minutes.

Can the stack run on a cheap VPS? Yes — the tools are lightweight (single RPC/API calls). Just mind the clock-sync discipline if you later add signed API work to the same host (see clock skew patterns).

Where do I get the tools? All four repos link from the tools overview — MIT licensed, clone and run.

Educational guide, not financial advice. Not affiliated with Polymarket. Last updated October 2026.